Baptist Church. Go ahead and find our seats and grab a hymnal. We will start
this afternoon in song number 406. Who is on the Lord's side? Song number 406.
Who is on the Lord's side? Song number 406. Let's all sing it out loudly
together on the first.
Thank you for just allowing us to gather here and sing unto you Lord
We just ask that you fill this church with your spirit
Help us sing unto you loudly and just honor and glorify you and everything that we do Lord and it's in Jesus name
We pray amen. All right for our next song. Let's go to song number 150
Song number 150 my faith has found a resting place
Song number 150, song 150, let's all sing it out together on the first.
Good evening. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin, you'd like another one, just lift up your hand whenever I just can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
Again, we have our Matthew 28 verse 10 for the verse of the week.
If you're able to quote the entire chapter, there will be a prize.
There's services, soul-winning times there, church stats.
On the right is our list of expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for them.
Upcoming events, we have a Ragnosa soul-winning marathon.
Also, we have a couple other things there for you to put on the calendar.
There's our church reminders, also our prayer list on the back.
We did give out prizes for our baptism challenge to the Urbantic tribe.
If you haven't received that, you can see Brother Furr if you're a part of his tribe.
Did we get them all handed out already?
Okay, congratulations to them, and that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
So just go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 148.
It's in our special handout, Psalm 148.
That was Psalm chapter 148 in your special hand out or in your King James Bible Psalm 148
often plates are being passed around go ahead and turn in your bibles to Deuteronomy chapter
number one that's the book of Deuteronomy chapter number one
chapter number one the Bible says these be the words which Moses spake unto all
Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness in the plain over against the
Red Sea between Peran and Tafel and Laban and Hazaroth and Dizahab. There
are 11 days journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir unto Kadesh Barnea.
And it came to pass in the 40th year, in the 11th month on the first day of the month,
that Moses spake unto the children of Israel.
According unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them,
after he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,
and Og the king of Beisham, which dwelt at Asteroth in Edrii.
On this side, Jordan and the land of Moab began Moses to declare this law saying,
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb saying,
ye have dwelt long enough in this mount,
turn you and take your journey,
and go to the mount of the Amorites,
and unto all the places nigh thereunto,
in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale,
and in the south, and by the seaside,
to the land of the Canaanites,
and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Behold, I have set the land before you.
Go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
to give unto them and to their seed after them. And I spake unto you at that time saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.
The Lord your God hath multiplied you and behold here this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are and bless you as he hath promised you.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance and your burden and your strife?
Take you wise men and understanding and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you
And he answered me and said,
the thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known,
and made them heads over you.
Captains over thousands and captains over hundreds
and captains over fifties and captains over tens
and officers among your tribes.
And I charged your judges at that time saying,
hear the causes between your brethren
and judge righteously between every man and his brother.
and the stranger that is with him.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment,
but ye shall hear the small as well as the great.
Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man,
for the judgment is God's,
and the cause that is too hard for you,
bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
And I commanded you at that time
all the things which ye should do.
And when we departed from Horeb we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which he saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh, Barnea.
And I said unto you, year common to the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us.
Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee. Go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath set unto thee. Fear not, neither be discouraged.
And ye came near unto me, every one of you, and said,
We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land,
and bring us word again by what way we must go up,
and into what cities we shall come.
And the saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe,
and they turned and went up into the mountain,
and came unto the valley of Eshkal, and searched it out.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again and said,
It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.
Not withstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us,
He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us.
Withers shall we go.
With or shall we go up our brethren have discouraged our hearts saying the people is greater and taller than we
The cities are great and walled up to heaven and moreover. We have seen the sons of the Anacoms there
Then I said unto you dread not neither be afraid of them the Lord your God which goeth before you
He shall fight for you according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness
Where thou has seen how that the Lord thy God bear thee as a man doth bear his son in all the way that she went
Until he came into this place
Yet in this thing he did not believe the Lord your God
who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents in
in fire by night to show you by what way you should go and in a cloud by day.
And the Lord heard the voice of your words and was wroth and swear, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good
land, which I swear to give unto your fathers.
Save Caleb, the son of Jefuni, he shall see it.
And to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon and to his children,
because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
Also, the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying thou also shall not go in thither,
but Joshua the son of none, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither.
Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Moreover, your little ones, which he said, should be a prey, and your children, which
in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto
them will I give it, and they shall possess it."
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord.
We will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us.
And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight, for I am not among you.
lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
So I spake unto you, and ye would not hear,
but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord,
and went presumptuously up into the hill.
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain,
came out against you and chased you as bees do,
and destroyed you in Sierra, even unto Horma.
And ye returned and wept before the Lord,
but the Lord would not hearken to your voice,
nor give ear unto you.
So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for the Word of God.
I ask you to bless Pastor Shelley's message.
Just want to thank you for the salvation today and for all your great blessings.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Here in Deuteronomy, it's kind of giving a recap of what's happened to the children
of Israel and their journeys through the wilderness, which was a 40-year journey.
what the previous generation was like and some of the experiences they went through.
I want to look at verse 35 where it says this,
surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I swear
to give unto your fathers. Now they were supposed to go through the wilderness for 40 years
so that God could kill every single one of these evil generation
and so that they could not enter into the promised land.
It was actually God just waiting for them to weed themselves out
and kill themselves off so that the next generation could go into the promised land.
And God called them an evil generation.
Why? Because they did not trust the Lord, they did not believe in Him, and they turned
back in their hearts, and it kind of goes through a lot of the reasons what they did
and the things that they said, and so because of that, God punished them by forcing them
to stay in the wilderness until they died.
Now, really, I think what's important is we have to recognize that not only will God
And so, we have to kind of work together and be a team in a sense because God will many
times judge us corporately, you know, as a church, as a state, as a city, as an area.
I mean, God often is judging groups of people, you know, for the group's sin in a sense.
And it doesn't mean that there isn't individual responsibility and there isn't individual
There's a corporate response that God will dole out where essentially they
hate this generation is not good enough.
So you're all going to kind of be punished corporately as a body.
And because he can punish a whole group of people like this,
it makes me feel nervous and say, you know,
I don't want us to be an evil generation.
And it's not just good enough for me to serve God.
We need other people to come alongside of us and for us to not be an evil
generation.
so that God can do great wonders and works in our lifetime
and not just be kind of waiting for the next generation to step up to the plate.
You know, this is our time, this is our opportunity
to be a good generation and make a big difference in this world
and we don't want to be an evil generation.
And really that's the title of my sermon this evening, is Don't Be An Evil Generation.
Don't be an evil generation, and you know what?
It doesn't take just one person, it takes all of us
to commit ourselves to say, you know what?
We are not gonna be an evil generation.
We are going to trust in the Lord.
Now I wanna go through some of this that we just read again,
but just highlighting a few points here.
If you go back to verse 21, the Bible says,
behold the Lord thy God has set the land before thee,
go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers
has said unto thee, fear not, neither be discouraged.
He's encouraging this next generation to not be like the past generation don't be like the evil generation that just died
What do you need to do?
You need to go under this land.
You need to possess it.
You need to take it.
The promised land is there for the taking.
You got to take it.
So an evil generation does not take the land.
An evil generation is afraid of the giants of the land,
is afraid of the conflict, afraid of the fight,
and they just want to stay out in the wilderness,
not really accomplish anything,
not really possess anything.
They're afraid of possession, in a sense.
He says, don't be afraid, neither be discouraged.
And he came near unto me, every one of you, and said,
we will send men before us, and they shall search out the land
and bring us word again, by what way we must go up,
and into the cities we shall come,
and the same pleased me well."
And it took 12 men of you, one of a tribe,
and they turned and went up into the mountain
and came into the valley of Eschel and searched it out.
And they took out the fruit of the land in their hands
and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again,
and said,
It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.
Notwithstanding, he would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God,
and he murmured in your tents and said,
Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. With it shall we go up.
Our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying,
the people is greater and taller than we,
the cities are great and walled up to heaven,
and moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
The Lord your God, which goeth before you,
he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you
in Egypt before your eyes.
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen,
hath the Lord thy God bear thee, as a man doth bear his son,
and all the way that he went, until he came into this place.
Yet in this thing, he did not believe the Lord your God,
who went in the way before you,
to search you out of place to pitch your tents in
and fire by night to show you by what way you should go
and the cloud by day.
And the Lord heard the voice of your words
and was wroth and swear, saying,
surely there shall not one of these men
of this evil generation see that good land,
which I swear to give on your fathers.
So he's recounting, hey, we drug you to the promised land.
I'm saying go into it you took 12 spies not a bad problem not a bad thing good idea
But they came back they brought an evil report you guys murmured you guys got discouraged
You didn't want to go into the promised land
You weren't trusting me to fight the battles for you and as a result. I got so angry. I said fine. None of you gonna see it
Caleb and Joshua. And of course that's what he brings up here in verse number 36.
And him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon
and to his children, because he hath holy follow the Lord.
Also the Lord is angry with me for your sakes,
saying thou also shalt not go in thither.
But Joshua, the son of none, which standeth before thee,
he shall go in thither, encourage him,
for he shall cause Israel to inherit.
So only Caleb and Joshua get to enter in the promised land,
even Moses is kept out.
Real reasons for this, but there's also spiritual reasons for this. This is kind of like a foreshadowing and a picture of something
The promised land in a sense pictures salvation in some ways and if you think about it salvation you can only enter
Through faith and if you don't have faith you can't enter in the promised land and because they didn't trust in the Lord
He didn't allow them to physically enter the promised land as a picture of what salvation is like that when you don't trust in the Lord
You don't get into to get that salvation
Additionally, Moses is not allowed in but did you notice how he worded it for your sake?
He's saying he's not allowed to go in for your sake because Moses pictures the law
Of course the law was given unto him and the reason why God has matted us is because of the law
Not because of the law but because of our sake because we broke the law and because of the fact that we broke the law
You can't be saved by the law the law cannot get you into the promised land
It cannot give you salvation because salvation is a free gift by faith
And so no matter how much repenting of your sins,
no matter how much you want to turn over a new leaf,
you cannot get into the Promised Land by works,
by the law, it's by faith only.
And then of course Joshua enters in the Promised Land.
And of course Joshua is really the name Jesus.
If you actually understand the root,
it is the same name as Jesus.
And of course Joshua goes in as a picture of how Jesus leads us into the Promised Land
and gives us that salvation.
Caleb, the son of Jefouni,
He kind of studied this, he seems to be of Gentile background and you kind of see a picture of replacement theology also coming in here.
Hey, Caleb gets in and the children of the kingdom are cast out, that evil generation is cast out.
And you get another foreshadowing of the gospel of replacement theology, all of these great things.
But I want to talk about this more of a practical perspective.
And the practical thing is that while we're not necessarily knocking on the door of some physical promised land where we have to go fight some physical giant.
I believe that God wants us to still have the same attitude, though,
of possessing the land upon which he has given us
and fighting the giants that we do have in this world
and not being an evil generation that's unwilling to trust the Lord to fight our battles for us.
Because there could be this attitude,
there could be this temptation for us to just get lazy, backslidden, fearful,
afraid, and not willing to fight the Lord's battles.
And, you know, it's not for us to decide what battles there are.
There's just some giant out there screaming and saying whatever to find the armies of the Lord God of Israel,
or just possessing the land, and we have to fight it.
You know, I didn't pick that in America we would just be filled with a bunch of homosexuals and freaks and weirdos and faggots,
and that we would have to fight that battle.
But you know what, that is a giant in our land.
And there's a lot of churches today that say,
you know what, I'm not willing to fight that battle.
I'm not willing to preach what the Bible says about it.
I'm not even gonna use a derogatory word about them.
I'm so afraid of them.
And yet we as a church, we should not be afraid of fighting that battle and saying you know what the Lord is going to fight that battle for us.
Hey, we need to possess the land. You know what America is our country. It is not some faggot's country.
You know what? We should possess the land and say, you know what? I'm not afraid of you. You should be afraid of God.
And you should be afraid of the Word of God. And you should be afraid of how the culture has been changing lately.
Because, you know, for a while it felt like, man, they're going to win this battle.
But boy, it seems like the tide's been turning lately.
And you know what the last thing Christians need to do is get soft now.
We need to just keep going and stay strong on the word of God and say, hey, these people
are weird.
They're freaks.
We should keep them away from our children and we should overturn a lot of the laws that
were passed in the past.
You know, Lawrence v. Texas needs to be re-reviewed by the Supreme Court.
And it needs to become illegal to be a sodomite again in America.
Say, is that possible?
Well, it's definitely possible.
I don't know if it's going to happen, but you know what?
I'm not going to stop trying.
I'm not going to stop trying to preach what the Bible says.
I'm not going to discourage people.
You know, there's somebody in my personal life that's close to me.
And they were off on this issue and not that long ago, I recently said, hey.
If Texas had on the books a law and you were going to vote because they love voting, they love to tell me all about it, right?
I'm like, if it's on the ballot, Leviticus 2013, are you voting for it?
and they said, yes, I am.
All right, I was like, hey, that's all I need.
Hey, we're winning people over right now, okay?
And maybe we need to win the culture over
before it's on the ballot,
because it may not win right now.
So we need to win more people over
so that if ever came on the ballot,
hey, you would be like, yes, I do.
Yes, that is what should be the law of the land,
and we should possess the land.
You say, oh, the giants are too big for us.
The giants are too strong for us.
They're going to destroy it.
You know what? Nuts to the giants.
They're bred for us.
We should possess the line.
Don't be an evil generation that just says,
I don't want to fight that battle.
I'm not interested in talking about uncomfortable things.
I'm not going to fight against feminism.
I'm not going to fight against the modern versions
of the Bible today.
I think all of them are generally the word of God.
I don't want to fight against the way that women dress.
I don't want to fight against the Hordom.
I don't want to fight against the issues.
You know, that's an evil generation that says,
you know what, I'm not interested in fighting.
You know, we should be willing to fight the battles
of the Lord and say, you know what?
It doesn't matter what the battle is I'm just on the Lord side and if he says hey go in here and conquer this land
That I'm going to conquer this land, you know in the New Testament
Jesus giving all kinds of parables and one of them he says occupy till I come we should occupy America
Fundamental Baptist should occupy America. We should possess the land
We should make more fundamental Baptist.
We need to get more people saved.
We need to turn more people to righteousness.
We need to start printing more King James Bibles.
We need to make Baptist great again.
You know, you want to make America great again?
Well, you got to make more Baptist.
You got to get more people saved.
You got to get more people King James only.
You got to get more people believing salvation
by faith alone, eternal security.
We need to get more of the post-trib
being taught everywhere.
Hey, yeah, we should fight that giant
of the pre-trib rapture.
And look, you know, I'm not against being friends with pre-tribbers
You know, it wouldn't even bother me if this would be fun to me is like if a pre-tribber came and preached for us
You know sometimes you don't want to like preach some of the church doesn't you know agree with because you don't want to like
Leave them astray, but I'm like I'm pretty confident that nobody's gonna be led astrayed by the pre-trib rapture in our church
Okay, like even if someone visited our church and their pre-trib and they accidentally just said something
You know or I don't think if they accidentally taught a little bit of Zionism you'd be like oh no now I believe it or something
You know I
Think what they're really afraid of is us rubbing off on them
But you know what, I'm willing.
I'm willing to be friends with these people.
I'm willing to hang out with these people
because we need to turn more people to righteousness.
We need to become friends with more people.
We need more soul winning.
We need more badness.
We need to link together and fight the real battle here
because I don't want to be an evil generation
where we as a whole are just not willing
to fight the battles.
Hey, I'm independent Baptist all day long, but you know what?
We should still come together with our brothers and sisters in Christ and fight the real enemies that are out there and
come together on the real issues that we're fighting today and actually start turning a lot of people towards the Lord.
You know, we need to do this. Go if you would do Ecclesiastes chapter number two.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter two, but here's the question. What kind of person are you?
What kind of Christian will you be?
And there's no guarantee of what your outcome is going to be like.
That is for you to decide, it's for us to decide.
And we have to make the decision, you know what?
I am going to serve God.
And whatever we've been handed down, we should not just rest in what's been handed down to us.
We should take it and do something with it.
You know, Solomon was handed a great opportunity to build the temple of the Lord.
But you know what he did? He built it.
He could have squandered it, he could have ruined it.
Many kings inherited the temple of the Lord
and it diminished in their reign.
Some of them, they even lost it in their reign.
And the reality is, what kind of generation are you?
Are you gonna take the things that God gave us
and we're gonna use them and put them to great use?
Or are you gonna squander them and ruin them?
You never know, look at Ecclesiastes 2 verse 18.
because I should leave it under the man
that should be after me.
And who knoweth whether he should be a wise man or a fool?
Yet, shall he have rule over all my labor
wherein I've labored,
and wherein I've showed myself wise under the sun,
this is also vanity."
So Solomon's worried, he's saying,
man, I was great.
Man I did a lot of things. I was really smart. I made a lot of good decisions the kingdom prospered in my hand
But I'm kind of mad about it because
Whoever I hand it to could be a just complete idiot and just ruin all of it in five minutes
Yeah, just one center destroy with much good and of course
It's like you have the 12 tribes united together this one great kingdom to give all this honor glory to the Lord
It's handed to Ray aboam his son, and then just instantly it's now down to two tribes
I mean, he went from 12 tribes, all locked together, all unified, this great kingdom,
and then you handed it to Rehoboam, and he's just a fool, and he just runs off 10 tribes
right away.
For no legitimate reason.
The old men gave him counsel and said, hey, if you are kind to these people, if you serve
these people, they'll serve with you, they'll stick with you.
But he's like, no, I'm going to chastise you with scorpions.
I'm gonna basically break your backs
and you think that my father was strict.
I'm gonna be 10 times more harsh than he is.
And I'm paraphrasing, of course,
but generally speaking,
Ray Abom is not taking the counsel of the wise men.
He's a fool.
He hearkens to the young generation that's with him,
his companions of fools,
and he loses half the kingdom.
Now,
It's half the kingdom basically in the population is about it's about half the population even though
It's 10 to two tribes just because the tribe of Judah was just so much larger than a lot of the other tribes
But at the end of the day, he basically just squanders tons of it and eventually
Israel just goes so downhill. I mean he basically just ruins half of their entire nation
Because of Jeroboam takes them on and look we don't know what the next generation is gonna do
You never know what the next generation is going to do.
And frankly speaking, if you study the Bible,
there's tons of generations that are just terrible.
There's tons of kids that are just terrible.
Go for you into Judges chapter number two.
Go to Judges chapter two.
I mean, think about Adam.
His first son is Cain.
What an evil generation.
Cain.
But he has Abel, right?
Abel was good, Cain's bad.
And really, if you study the Bible,
you'll kind of notice a pattern
of many great men in the Bible
having some terrible sin.
Let me just give you a little sampling.
Adam had Cain.
Noah had Ham.
Abraham had Ishmael.
Isaac had Esau.
Jacob had Reuben and his brethren.
Aaron had Nadab and Abihu.
Gideon had Abimelech,
who's slew all of his brethren.
Eli had Hoffni and Phineas.
Samuel had Joel and Abiah.
Saul had Ishmael Sheth, David had Amnon,
Absalom, Adonisia, Solomon had Rehoboam.
Now, a lot of them had a counterpart, had a good son.
A lot of them had some good children.
But, you know, that goes to show that if that many good men,
I mean, you could have two conclusions here.
Here's one conclusion that I think's weird.
Every single guy in the Bible is a bad dad.
Okay.
Or, B, here's another alternative, that there really is sometimes just bad seeds and bad
kids and they have free will, right?
I mean, that seems like a pretty logical conclusion, or you could just simply say, Adam's a bad
dad, Noah's a bad dad, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron, Joshua, Gideon, Eli, Samuel, Saul,
David, Solomon, and I'd ask you this question, where are all the good dads at in the Bible?
Okay, maybe you could say Philip the Evangelist, right?
But it's like, is that the only one good dad
in the entire Bible?
I think that that would be kind of a weird conclusion to draw.
But what I would say is that I think
that all these dads were good.
You know why?
Well, I taught you this morning something.
What did I teach you this morning?
That pretty much if you're not a good parent,
like if you don't really do anything,
you're going to always have a bad outcome.
But in order to have a good outcome,
you have to be a good parent.
And if you think of these same people, you know what, Adam and Eve had Seth, Adam and Eve had Abel, Adam and Eve had two great sons, one bad.
That sounds to me that they're probably a good parents then actually, because you know, you don't just have good kids accidentally.
Good kids foolishness bound on the heart of a child if a child left himself
he brings his mother to shame. So if the reason why his son Cain was bad because
of parenting, then you would expect all the other ones to have been bad too
because it's a mixed bag. I'm going to say he's a good parent.
Noah, Shem and Japeth, they were great kids.
You have Abraham as Isaac, great kid.
Isaac has Jacob, great kid.
You have Jacob having Joseph, great kid.
Aaron has Eleazar and Ithamar
to balance out Nadab and Abihu.
Joshua, no, and we're gonna read about this in a minute.
Gideon, I don't know.
Eli, I don't think so.
Samuel, I'm not sure about.
Saul, he had Jonathan.
You have David he had Solomon and
So you kind of have a lot of these guys having some good sons
Along with some bad sons that tells me that they must have been a good parent too
And I would think that they were a good parent in general
It's just that good parents don't have a guarantee pretty much my opinion bad parents have a guarantee of a bad kid
Good parents have a mixed bag a lot of times in the Bible sometimes you have all good kids
That's what I would hope for that's what I would want for but you know what?
We don't know what the next generation is gonna be like why would Solomon get up and say I have no idea
What the next generation is gonna do if he could just know for sure that they're gonna be good
He can't no one can know if the next generation is gonna be an evil generation and so we as a
Generation need to make sure that we're not evil
We can't affect anything but the present and we need to be focused in on our present
And we need to realize that even if our generation before us was great
we still have a call on our lives to be great and
Joshua's generation was great and they went in to the Promised Land
They weren't like their fathers that evil generation you had an evil generation then you have Joshua
What happens immediately after Joshua? Well look at this as in Judges chapter 2 verse 7 and
The people serve the Lord all the days of Joshua
And all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua,
who had seen all the great works of the Lord
that he did for Israel.
So during Joshua's reign, it's great.
Great generation, they're loving the Lord,
they're doing right.
It says in verse eight,
And Joshua the son of none, the servant of the Lord,
died being 110 years old,
and they buried him in the border of his inheritance.
And Timnath here is,
in the Mount of Ephraim on the north side of the hill Gaiash.
And also, all that generation were gathered under their fathers,
and there arose another generation after them,
which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
And the children of Israel did evil.
in the sight of the Lord and served Balaam.
And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers,
which brought them out of the land of Egypt
and followed other gods of the gods of the people
that were round about them,
and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the Lord to anger.
And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Astoroth.
So what is the Bible saying, the Bible is making it clear like the previous generation of Joshua before them evil generation
That's what it says in Deuteronomy chapter number one
Joshua and his generation great generation serve the Lord all the way until him and all the elders die as soon as all of them die
Now we're back to another evil generation and we have an entire generation where they forsake the Lord
They're not seeking him and they're doing a lot of wickedness. They're serving Baal
We don't want to be that evil generation
We don't want to be well
I'm serving God as long as my parents are there with me as long as that Joshua generations is hanging on
But as soon as the Joshua generation is gone, well now we're just gonna go back to serving false gods
We're going and we're gonna forsake the Lord
We're gonna forsake the Word of God.
No, we need to be a generation that is a great generation
and keeps everybody on the right track.
And you never know what the next generation is gonna do.
But while I'm in charge,
while we have the ability to possess the land,
we need to be like Joshua.
We need to not be an evil generation.
Go to 1 Samuel chapter number three,
1 Samuel chapter number three.
Sometimes you can even be better than your fathers
when we think about Gideon specifically.
Gideon his first task that he had to do because after this evil generation starts the book of judges gets gnarly
Okay, they're just bad. It takes like a specific deliverer or judge to help them
Gideon's gonna be that judge his first task they has to do is overthrow his father's altar to bail
That tells me that Gideon's striving to be better even than his own father,
striving to serve the Lord and get rid of the idols in his father's life.
And then, of course, his father gives him a name, Jeruba Bell,
because he is throwing down Baal because he's a destroyer of Baal.
He gets this nickname of Jeruba Bell as Gideon
because he is throwing down the false religion that he inherited.
So, a good generation is not only going to take what they've been received,
they're going to even go beyond.
what their fathers. Hey, that Joshua generation, they were better
than the generation before them because their fathers didn't enter the Promised Land,
but they entered the Promised Land. And so we want to make sure that we're serving God fervently
and that we're not an evil generation that we're like a Joshua and we're doing even better.
But sometimes you have these evil generations pop up look at his first Samuel chapter 3 verse 12
And that day I will perform against Eli all things which I've spoken concerning his house when I begin
I will also make an end for I have told him that I will judge his house forever
For the iniquity which he knows because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not and therefore
I have sworn in the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering
forever so Eli is kind of
In my mind one of the only mentions in the Bible in this list where they have a lot of bad kids
We're God's putting some blame on the parent you kind of see some blame on Eli specifically
And what is he being blamed for like what did he fail?
If you're gonna say there's something you failed in what does the Bible bring up?
What does God bring up that he didn't restrain his children?
So apparently he wasn't applying enough discipline in his children's life or he was
Allowing them to do things that he should not allow them to do and because of that God is going to punish Eli
For not disciplining his children appropriately and it's not giving them enough discipline
So he's going to punish him
You know we need to make sure that we're disciplining our children so that they can be a good generation
Right not only so we can be a good generation so the next generation
Doesn't just go down a bad path. We need to restrain them and keep them from evil
Go to chapter eight, go to chapter number eight.
And I just picked out a couple of these examples
that I wanted to show you.
Cain is completely ostracized and rejected it from society
and pushed out and shunned
so that we can rebuild society with Seth.
God pretty much just finds the entire world just reprobate and unfixable with Noah's generation,
and so he just restarts with Noah and his family.
But then even Ham is evil and wicked, and he's cursed, became in his son,
and Ham's generation is going to be end up cursed as a result of his sin.
Now, even Samuel, who is a great guy in the Bible,
Whenever it's kind of the end of his life. He gives like a whole speech asking the whole church like
What have I ever done anything wrong? Have I ever taken a sheep ever?
I've done anything a bribe or anything wrong and they just say like you haven't but they say but we just don't want your sons to
Essentially rule over us because they do take bribes. They do like they are wicked. We want a king
And the Bible tells us a little bit about his kids.
It says in verse 2,
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel,
and the name of the second, Abaya,
they were judges in Beersheba.
And his sons walked not.
in his ways, but turned aside after Luke and took bribes and perverted judgment.
So even though Samuel's a good guy, even though Samuel doesn't take bribes,
even though Samuel serves the Lord, even though Samuel has good character,
his sons just choose to not walk in their father's ways
to pervert their father's ways. And as a result of that,
they end up being rejected and God replaces them with a king.
You can think of it this way, the judges are replaced with a king just like the judges of the Old Testament are replaced with a king and that king is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because the judges were perverted and so they end up getting replaced with the Lord Jesus Christ as our judicial system.
Now you have again the Saul, Eshboseth, Jonathan, David, with Abnon, Absalom, Adonisia, and Solomon.
You just see like a mixed bag constantly, and God is constantly purging out these evil people.
Eshboseth loses. The house of Saul waxes weaker and weaker and encompasses nothing.
Amnon, Absalom, Adonisia get destroyed. Solomon gets built up.
And in a society God wants there to be a righteous generation doing the works of God.
And those who are evil he will purge from society.
So we need to make sure that we are serving God faithfully and we're doing what's right
so that God will preserve us and destroy the wicked.
I believe, you know, we just don't want to be in a situation where it's like
I sought for a man among them and I found none.
We could say, you know what, well, we're not going to serve God like all the other wicked people.
And then he's just like, okay, we need to start over again.
God is going to constantly purge the wicked from society over time.
And even amongst some good people, there's going to be some people that need to be purged from society.
But at the end of the day, what we have to understand is God is going to use those who are going to have the faith in him
to take them into a promising and possessed land.
When I say possess land, I'm meaning it literally.
I think that we need to literally possess Texas.
We need to literally possess America.
And not only that, we need to go over the whole world
and start possessing large areas and start preaching the gospel
and rebuilding Christianity in all kinds of different areas.
An evil generation would say,
I don't want to do that kind of a work.
I don't want to be lazy.
And you know what? God is going to destroy them.
God's going to purge them from society.
But, you know, he's going to build up the Solomon's.
He's going to build up those that serve him.
Now, I want to address a certain point.
I want you to go to 1 Kings, chapter number 15.
1 Kings, chapter number 15.
It's also important that we do this for our child's upbringing
because, you know, we've been talking a little bit this morning
about nature versus nurture.
And what we need to do is we need to set a good example
for our children because I cannot guarantee
that my children will walk in my ways.
But what I don't want is to set a bad example, so that if they do walk in my ways, they fail.
I want it to be like, hey, I want to set up a good way.
I don't want to be an evil generation.
I want to be a good generation and set them up.
Just like David, you know, he wasn't going to build the temple.
But he procured a lot of assets so the next generation could do so.
And you know, maybe we won't like see a lot of huge victories in our life or in our generation,
but what we could do is walk in the ways of the Lord and set up the next generation
that if they choose to walk in the ways of the Lord,
that they could just have major successes, major victories,
have huge conquests in the name of God.
And sometimes we just have to be that building block for them.
But I've seen, you know, some people just kind of have this weird idea about, you know, people in the Bible and just parenting in general.
And I think that, you know, David is such a great example.
David is a great example of someone that was willing to humbly just say, you know what, I'm not going to build the temple even though I wanted that.
I'm just going to lay out for my son and he's going to do it.
And we should be like David.
But, you know, I've seen this accusation thrown out and I just want to address it for a moment.
I've seen this accusation where they say David is a bad dad or David is a crummy dad or David's a bad father.
And you know, I'm thinking like, I don't agree with that number one, but what does the Bible say on this subject?
Because, you know, it doesn't really matter what my opinion is.
If David is a bad father, then he is, but if David is a bad father, then why do you have Solomon?
And why does the Bible consistently say about David specifically that he wants every king in the kingdom to be like David?
I mean, if you study the Bible, you'll notice that everybody in the Bible is held to a standard,
and that standard is David consistently in the Bible.
What does the Bible say about David?
It says that he's the man after his own heart.
The man after God's own heart is David.
What does the Bible say in 1 Kings 15 verse 5?
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and turned not aside from anything
That he commanded him all the days of his life save only in the matter of your right of the Hittite
But oh, but God forgot that he's a he's a bad dad on top of that
Right. I mean, do you really expect me to believe who am I supposed to believe your opinion or
What the Bible says about David specifically?
I mean, what does the Bible say about it?
He's the man after God's own heart.
He's laying up in store so his son can build the house of God,
not for his glory.
David doesn't get the recognition.
David had shed too much blood, is what the Bible says,
so he couldn't build the temple.
He lays up for Solomon, according to the Bible,
other than the matter of Uriah, the Hittite,
he did that which was right.
Notice this from anything that he commanded.
All the commandments that God gave David,
the Bible is saying he did it.
except for one pretty big issue, it was a big issue.
I'm not trying to say that wasn't.
I'm not saying that David was perfect.
I don't think the Bible's saying David's perfect.
But just generally speaking,
it sounds like David's about as good as you can be.
Now go backwards to chapter 11 for a moment.
Go back to chapter 11 for a moment.
We should be like David.
Don't be an evil generation, be like David.
And the reason why I'm just kind of spending a second here
is I want to defend David for a moment
because I want us to be like him.
I don't want us to sit here and think that David's this bad character that we would model our lives after or something like that.
No, David was a good father, according to the Bible, because he did everything that God told him, except for in the matter of your eye, the head type.
Now does that mean that I agree with every single decision David made or I couldn't nitpick or be upset with some of the things?
Well, maybe I could but let's just see what God thinks about him. Let's see what the Bible says about him now
It says in verse 6 first Kings chapter 11 verse 6 and Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord and went not fully
After the Lord as did David his father. So if we're gonna compare and contrast who's better
David
I mean, it's not my opinion, that's God's opinion.
According to God, who is the better king?
Who is the better man?
It was David.
David was the better guy than Solomon.
Solomon did that, which was evil in the side of the Lord.
Whereas David, it's like he did that,
which was right in the eyes of the Lord,
saving the matter of your eye at the head time.
You got your one issue.
You want to make that clear so that nobody would be like,
what about that one time, you know?
That was obviously a huge issue, right?
Look at 1 Kings chapter 15.
Go back, and let's go to verse number three now.
We want to be a good generation,
and we want to raise the next generation to be good.
But you know, David didn't know what Solomon's gonna be like.
But let's just think about Solomon's life for a second.
At the end of David's life,
he hands over the kingdom to King Solomon.
Solomon's around 18 years old, young man.
He gives him all this great advice in First Kings too.
We're gonna read that in a minute, but.
He gives them all this great advice.
When is Solomon at his peak?
I mean, if we read about the Bible,
when do you want to be Solomon?
You want to be Solomon at the beginning of his ministry
because he's very humble.
He asked the Lord for wisdom
so that he can judge and discern God's people.
And he does a lot of good things
in the early parts of his ministry.
When does he kind of go bad?
Way later in life with all these different women with all these different wives
So if I were to say like why is Solomon so great?
I'll tell you why because David was great and here's the thing
You know why we need to be a good generation so that our children can be a good generation now as our memory fades
It's gonna be up to them to keep that going
Just like when we see with Joshua, hey, as their memory faded,
we notice that that next generation kind of waxed worse.
But if we want the next generation to be great,
then we have to be a great generation.
We have to be a great generation,
and we have to model for other people how to live.
Because many times, and we not only just have to start good,
we have to finish good.
It's often much better how we finish
than it is how we started.
Now look at 1st Kings 15 verse 3.
and he walked in all the sins of his father,
which he had done before him,
and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God
as the heart of David his father.
Now, I wanted to show you this because Solomon,
it doesn't ever have like this disclosure about Rehoboam.
You have David, then who's his son?
Solomon, who's his son?
Roboam, then who's his son?
Right a by Jim. This is the one that we're bringing up
He doesn't have this like statement about Reboem that I could find
But it does inadvertently here in verse 3 because it says and he walks in all the sins of his father
Who's a by Jim's father?
Reboem so you have Reboem and then you have a by Juh and it says in his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God
as the heart of David his father.
When the Bible brings up someone's father,
it's not always the direct descendant.
It's talking about someone in his lineage specifically.
So when God wants to tell somebody,
hey, you should have done the right thing.
Who does he go back to?
Who does he point to?
He doesn't point to Roboam.
He doesn't point to Solomon.
He points to who?
David, because David is the standard.
David is the standard of what a person should be like
of a king and basically a Christian in general.
Go forward to 2 Kings chapter number 14.
2 Kings chapter number 14.
Think about how weird it would be if in your Bible,
it said, David is the example.
This is the standard of what you should be like,
but he's a crummy dad.
Also, David lives to be 80 years old.
Okay, what does the Bible say?
Honor thy father, thy mother.
So that thy days may be long upon the land with the Lord thy God giveth thee. It's the first commandment with promness
So he obviously would have honored his father and his mother. He would have been a good son
He even took care of his family when he fled
When he fled from Saul, the Bible says at first he took his family and he hid them
among the Gentiles so that they would be safe
while he was on the run from King Saul. They weren't used against him as leverage or attack
or destroyed because he cared for his father and his mother.
So this guy is a great son, obviously living a long life,
I just don't see where you're coming up with this idea.
David's this crummy dad.
Were you there?
Did you see how he was bringing up his children
or what they were doing?
It doesn't really make any sense to me.
I think that it makes more sense
with the Bible saying that he's the standard.
Now, look at 2nd Kings chapter 14 verse three.
And he did that which was right on the side of the Lord.
Yet, not like David his father,
he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
So here he's saying, hey, this guy did right,
but he still wasn't as good as David.
He was like his dad.
I mean, do you notice how the Bible is just bringing up David?
It's just the stamp.
I mean, David is the highest standard, the highest caliber.
Look at 2nd Kings chapter 16, verse two.
So when it's comparing good...
David is bad. It's also David. It says in 2 Kings chapter number 16 verse 2
20 years old was he as when he began to reign and reigns 16 years in Jerusalem and
Did not that which is right in the sight of the Lord his God like David his father
So it's saying look this guy didn't do right. He should have been like who?
David because the Bible is consistently showing I mean think about this
The Bible is just saying David's the best David's the standard David is right
They didn't do right like David did like David did and then it's just like oh, but David's a bad father
That would be weird wouldn't it when he's the example and the standard consistently in the Bible go for it to first Kings chapter 2
Now I'm gonna go back to first Kings chapter number 2
This is a question I had when someone falsely accuses you after you're dead do you still get rewards in heaven?
And I don't know, but that would be kind of funny.
David just sees his mansion just keep getting bigger
like every day.
He's just like sweet, you know?
I mean, I don't know if that works or not,
but it's just kind of a funny thought experiment.
First Kings chapter two, verse one, the Bible says,
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die
and he charged Solomon and his son saying,
I go the way of all the earth.
Be thou strong, therefore, and show thyself a man,
and keep the charge of the Lord thy God,
to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,
and his commandments, and his judgments,
and his testimonies, as it is written to the law of Moses,
that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest,
and with us, whoever, thou turnest thyself,
that the Lord may continue his word,
which he spake concerning me, saying.
If thy children take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart
and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee, said he, a man on the throne of Israel."
This is a great charge.
We need to recognize that David is our spiritual father and David is giving us the exact same charge right now.
What is the charge that David is giving us?
He's saying, you need to be a good generation.
He said, I'm gonna be prosperous.
You're gonna be prosperous if you do something.
What is it?
Verse three, it says, we have to walk in his ways
talking about the Lord God,
keep his statutes and his commandments
and his judgments and his testimonies.
It sounds like he's being kind of repetitive,
but I think it needs to be said.
Hey, you need to keep every single commandment
and every single testimony and every single judgment
and walk in all of his ways and do everything that he said.
And if you do that, you're gonna be prosperous
because he promised me that I would have the same success.
And you know what, David ruled for 40 years.
You want to know why, because he kept the statutes and the promises and the commandments
and the judgments so that he was prosperous.
And then he's saying, if you do the same thing, then you will have the same success.
Towards the end of Solomon's life, though, God wants to kind of end it with Solomon prematurely.
But then he said, hey, I'm going to keep you going for your father, David's sake.
Not for your sake. You don't even deserve this and then even with Ray aboam. He's like, hey, I'll give you a couple
Uh, I'll give you a tribe just for David's sake. You know, you don't even deserve this. I'm gonna give her David's
I mean, what is the insanity?
To sit here and say, I think that David's a crummy dad.
When the Bible is saying he's the man after God's own heart.
When the Bible is saying he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord
and all the things that he commanded him saved the matter of Uriah.
When the Bible is setting him as the standard, standard, standard, standard.
Then he's telling Solomon, follow all the commandments like I've done and been successful
and then you will be successful.
And then it's just like, yeah, but he was a crummy dad.
It sounds like you don't read the Bible.
It sounds like you don't even understand what the Bible is teaching.
And frankly speaking, we need to make sure that we are going to do what David said and
we are going to follow the Lord with all our heart and with all our soul and then we will
have the same success.
Now, of course, we're not going to literally rule on a throne of Israel and we're not going
to be the king of Israel, but the same truth applies that when we follow his commandments
and his statutes, we're going to be prosperous and we can conquer the land.
we can have great successes in this world.
Now in the past, there has been some great men.
And I'm just gonna go back to kind of the recent past
to somebody specific that I wanna talk to for a second.
But there was a guy named Pastor Jack Hiles.
And I think that he was a great preacher.
In the 1990s, his church ran 20,000 people.
They were running 20,000 people on a weekend.
They said that they had 100,000 people in their membership roles.
So of the people that they had names for.
So in the 1990s, you have First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana is running 20,000 people on a weekend.
And if you've ever listened to Jack Hile's preach,
it wasn't because he was watered down, folks.
This guy was preaching hard.
This guy was preaching the King James Bible unapologetically.
He was preaching King James onlyism, calling out sin,
calling out all kinds of things.
And he was running this many people.
In the 1990s, I was alive in the 1990s, okay?
I was a young child, but I was alive in the 1990s.
That wasn't that long ago.
Here would be my question
because you can tell something,
I'll get through in a second.
You can tell in Jack Howe's preaching,
just listen to it, listen to the end of his life,
all the preaching he did.
You can tell he has a consistent theme
that he's worried about the next generation.
There's a specific sermon that's like all about it.
And I think you should listen to it as a great sermon,
but it's a vote for preaching is the title of the sermon.
It's like really long.
I loved it, it was excellent, okay?
Excellent sermon, but the whole sermon's about
passing down the torch to the next generation
and how he's worried about the next generation
and what they're gonna do and what they're gonna be like
and are they gonna carry forward.
Where's the thing, when you're running 20,000,
what would the carrying the torch look like?
Probably still running 20,000.
We're running more.
But you know, you look at...
that church, and you look at a lot of the things that happened.
What happened after he passed?
Here's my question. Where are those 20,000 people?
Because a lot of them are still alive.
Where are they?
Have they gone in the right direction?
Have they taken the torch and been a Joshua generation,
or have they been an evil generation
and turned away from the things of the Lord
and not walked in his ways and not gone in his direction?
And, you know, we are following in the footsteps of many of these people.
What are we going to be like?
Are we going to carry that torch again?
Are we going to do some great work?
Are we going to possess the land?
You know, at the time that Jack Hiles was pastor of that church,
it was the largest church in America.
Now what are the largest church?
Life church.
You know, here's the thing.
Life church is going hard.
You know what I don't I don't want that to go hard. I don't want the world
I don't want America to be conquered by life church. Yeah, I don't want it
You know, it's so funny. They call the new IRB a quote-colt
But let me explain to you how life church works
You go to a building where there's a TV and you watch a guy preach on a TV
They have 50 campuses approximately where they all go to a building and just watch one person preach now
Just imagine for a second
What people would say if we all came to a building and watch the screen of one preacher?
And isn't it funny that the people that go to life church would say we're a cult
Because we like somebody but they go to a building and watch the one preacher that they have and
They're not a cult
Now look, I'm not accusing Light Church of being a cult
because I frankly don't even care.
But I'm just saying, isn't it funny
that they have more tendency,
more proclivity to actually being a cult than we are,
but then they call us the cult, right?
Worse amount, magically a cult,
even though they go to watch a screen
of Craig Rochelle preaching.
Someone's gonna take over America, folks.
Someone is going to take over Christianity.
Someone is going to take over Texas.
Someone's going to take over Dallas, Fort Worth area.
And you know what it should be?
It should be fundamental Baptists.
It should be King James only, soul winning,
fundamental Baptists.
It should be skirt wearing, pregnant ladies going out,
preaching the gospel.
It should be people preaching the word of God
unapologetically.
It should be people with the Baptist bias
is what it should be.
And you know what, someone's got to do the work,
someone's got to step up, someone's got to join forces
and say, hey, you know what, it's time for America
to be Baptist again.
And to say, hey, we're going to keep the Lord's statutes,
but we're also going to go to battle
and we're going to conquer the land.
Someone is going to get the people saved in the Bahamas
in the fall and it's going to be us.
And if we don't do it, someone else will do it.
Hey, if someone else doesn't reach these people,
if we don't reach these people, someone else will.
Life church will.
gateway will whoever and they're gonna just suck up all these resources and just waste them and ruin them and
Do nothing with them and squander them and many times. It's because we are not going in to possess the land
It's like the Giants just keep wasting all the land canan
While the children of Israel could have been using those resources and serving God with them
And you know what? We need to not waste the the opportunities we've been given
And of course, our children are a great opportunity
that we've been given.
We don't want to waste them.
Go to Acts chapter 20, go to Acts chapter number 20.
And we need to take advantage of the leadership
that we've been given because I think we've been given
some good leadership.
You know, I think that Pastor Stephen Anderson
is a very unique preacher and a once in a generation
type person to really lead a charge.
But we need to take what he's done and run with it.
and say, hey, we should follow suit and be likewise
and keep reaching people and doing great works
because when you don't have great leadership,
bad things happen, folks.
I mean, as soon as Joshua and those people are gone,
everyone's bad.
The whole generation's bad.
And it's not like, oh, what about the good people
that weren't there?
No, the rest of the world's bad too.
The whole world lies in darkness and wickedness.
And what does the apostle Paul even say?
Look at Acts chapter 20 verse 29.
For I know this that after my departing shall grievous wills enter in among you not sparing the flock
Hey, when does it happen when he leaves? I?
Have no idea what's gonna happen when I'm gone. I
Can't affect it. I can't do anything in the grave. I might roll, okay? I might roll over my grave, but I can't do anything
You know what? I can do something right now and I can't guarantee that the next generation won't be evil
I can't guarantee the next generation won't squander what we built
But this is what I know we should do everything that we can right now
And we should build a pathway forward
for the next generation to walk into
and to do great works because afterwards,
grievous wolves will come in, like life church,
like gateway, like the Pentecostals,
like whoever that wants to come in here
and sweep and destroy and ruin all the resources,
grievous wolves trying to do things,
not sparing the flock.
Verse 30, also if you're on social,
I'm gonna rise speaking perverse things
to draw away disciples after them.
Don't be surprised when people are constantly trying to get you out of a good church and let me tell you something
This is a great church. This isn't even a good church. This is a great church
And we're doing great works for God and we're making a big impact in this world
And you know what? We need to keep going and when people want to draw you away from a great work
I mean imagine in hindsight you could go back in time and people are like you need to stop following Moses
You need to stop following Joshua.
You need to get out of the Apostle Paul's church.
You need to get away from Peter and James and John.
Hey, you need to follow me.
My name's Deotrophes.
You need to come detox with Deotrophes, okay?
And in the trash can with us.
With hymenaeus and phyletus and even gashmuth saith it.
It's like the funniest line to me in the Bible. It's like, who cares about gashmoo?
Who is gashmoo? Nobody cares. He's a literal nobody.
He's a proverb. He's a joke.
You know, but there's gonna be people that are trying to destroy the work of God and try to draw you away from the things of God.
But you know what? We need to say, you know what? I'm not gonna be the evil generation. I'm gonna keep going forward.
I'm gonna follow the leadership. I'm gonna do what's right.
And you don't know when you're going to have good leadership.
And when you have it, you need to just go all in.
When you got somebody that's leading the charge,
you got to get in while the getting's good.
Second Chronicles 24, look at verse 2.
And Joesh did that which is right in the sight of the Lord
all the days of Jehoiadah the priest.
This guy was doing great while he had Jehoiadah.
Then what happens? Look at verse 15.
But Joel waxed old and was full of days when he died and 130 years old was he when he died
And they buried him the city of David among the kings because he had done good in the Israel both toward God and toward his house
Now after the death of Joel it came the princes of Judah and made obeisance to the king
Then the king harken unto them and they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and serve groves and idols and wrath came upon
Judah and Jerusalem for their trespass
Well, it even says this, verse 19,
and he sent prophets to them
to bring them again unto the Lord,
and they testified against them,
but they would not give ear.
What happens?
While Jehoi does there,
good, good, good, as soon as he's gone,
evil generation, and they turn away from the Lord,
and things aren't going well.
And you know, we could have an evil generation.
Have you ever heard of the dark ages?
Yeah.
It's not even dark decades, it's dark ages, folks.
Why? Because Christians weren't possessing the land because evil generation must have just squandered the work that was there
And we need to rise up and say hey, we've been given a great opportunity here. We've been given the King James Bible
We need to make sure that we're gonna do the work of the Lord
We need to not harden our heart as in the day of provocation, but we need to serve God
And we need to say this you're not gonna take our Bible
We're not going to let them take our Bible.
We are going to fight for this.
We are not going to be an evil generation
that deconstructs away from the King James Bible.
We're not transitioning away from the King James Bible.
We're going to turn more people to the King James Bible.
We're going to get more King James Bibles printed.
Hey, we're printing more Texas Receptus works
with the Spanish Reinovallera Gomez 2010.
You're not going to take the Word of God from us.
We're going to make the Word of God be more abundant,
not less abundant in this land.
You're not going to take our church away from us.
This is our church, and we're going to keep it.
You're not going to take away our soul winners.
We're going to keep our soul winners.
Now, if you want to take the trash out, please do.
We need more room, but don't take our soul winners.
You're not going to take our soul winners.
I'll fight for soul winners.
Hey, you're not going to take our gospel.
We're not going to be like the Glacians and get water down.
Hey, we're not going to start turning into a pen of your sins here.
We're not going to start turning into Lordship Salvation here.
It's a free gospel.
You don't have to do any works.
Hey, they're not going to take our state from us.
It's Texas and I like it.
Hey, if you don't want it to be Texas, go back to California.
Don't try to make Texas become California.
If you like Texas, then become Texan.
Hey, we want to keep the things that God has given us and we're gonna possess the land. In fact, Texas might just take over your state
All right, how about that?
Hey, you're not gonna take our brisket. You're not gonna take our preaching. You're not gonna take our joy
You're not gonna take our spirit
Go if you went to Psalm 78
Hey, we've got a steadfast attitude and you're not gonna take it. We are gonna be a good generation
We're not gonna be an evil generation. We're not gonna turn away from the things of God. You can't take these things from us
If God be for us, who can be against us is what the Bible says.
And you know what?
We need to make sure that we are a righteous generation that rises up and turns many to righteousness.
We turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers.
And that we actually do something big in this world.
You know, I don't know what to think about the presidency.
I don't know what to think about Trump.
But I already said this a while back and I still mean it.
Maybe God's given us four years to do some real damage.
So we need to do some real damage.
We need to go hard. We need to preach. We need to be unapologetic.
We need to do great exploits. We need to reach the world with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
because we need to redeem the time because the days are evil.
And I don't know what the next generation will do, but I know what we can do. We can do great works.
Look at Psalm 78 verse 5.
For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded
her fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to
come might know them, even the generation which should be born, who should arise and
declare them to their children.
that they might set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments and might not be,
as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that set not their heart a right
and his spirit was not steadfast with God.
You know what the problem is?
People are not steadfast.
You know what the solution is?
People that are steadfast.
Hey, you know what the solution is for America?
Steadfast Baptist Church.
And have me a steadfast spirit and a steadfast attitude.
And let me tell you something,
you're not gonna take our children,
I'm gonna make my children steadfast.
And I'm gonna command my children to be steadfast.
And you're not gonna take our sons,
and you're not gonna take our daughters.
You know what, my daughter's not gonna wear a halter top.
My daughter's not going to look like a Hoochie mama my daughter's not going to dress like a slut and a skank and a whore and a
Tramp my daughter isn't going to wear that butch haircut my daughter's not going to wear the mini skirt
My daughter's not going to wear the midriff my daughter's not going to dress in her underwear in public
My daughter's not going to wear the bikini. You know why because I'm not going to be an evil generation
And there's so many people that want to destroy our country and destroy our land,
and when you say, you know what, our daughters are going to dress godly.
You're not going to have my children.
Our children are gonna serve God, you know the Bible says that we're not supposed to prostitute our daughters to cause her to be a whore
America is turning their daughters into whores
It's evil. It's wicked
We need to raise some women that respect themselves and love God and do not forsake the covenant of their God and
Actually want to be a godly conservative woman
A wife, a mother, being a mother is one of the greatest things you can ever do with your
life and we need to praise mothers and praise wives and say no to being a whore.
I'm not going to let them take my wife.
My wife is gonna obey me. My wife is not gonna succumb to this feminism
My wife's not gonna have to go get some job. My wife's not gonna become some boss, babe
My wife is not gonna be Vashti. She's gonna be Esther. And you know what Esther does?
She comes in and asks me and she can ask me a question
Vashti when she's called in she doesn't even show up
She's too busy getting herself dolled up
with a bunch of makeup or something.
You know what?
I'm not interested in Vashti.
You're not gonna take my wife
and turn her into some Vashti today
where all the women and all the wives
despise their husband.
You know what?
God can get rid of all the junk in our country.
And let me tell you something about feminism.
It is a self-defeating ideology.
Where is all your daughters coming from?
Oh, you didn't have any.
You killed them all.
You're just pruning yourself, aren't you and the next generation you won't exist
No one will even know your name. Nobody even cares about you cat lady. Even your cats don't like you
Okay
We need to make sure that we're not an evil generation because we're literally raising the next generation
They're not raising the next generation
They killed the next generation
The next generation is our children and we need to motivate them to not be an evil generation
Say hey look at these psychos destroying themselves. Don't be like them. Don't dress like them
Don't talk like them. Don't hang out with them. Don't go to the movies with them
Go to Psalm 24, go to Psalm 24.
We're not gonna let them have these things.
We are gonna take possession of the land.
We're gonna make women godly again.
We're gonna make wives submissive again.
We're gonna make husbands good leaders and good providers.
We're gonna make our sons strong.
We're gonna make people actually know what the Bible says.
We're gonna make people articulate,
God-fearing Christians who value the things of God,
who sacrifice for the things of God.
That's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna motivate people to actually serve God
the way he should be served.
Look at Psalm 24, verse one.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,
the world and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded upon the seas
and established upon the floods.
Who shall ascend in the hill of the Lord?
Or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands and a pure heart
who hath not lifted up his soul in a vanity
nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord.
righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of
them that seek him that seek thy face, O Jacob, Sila. We need to be a generation
that the Bible says, hey, this is the generation that's seeking the Lord that has
pure hands and a clean heart that says, you know what, we are not gonna let the
world take our hearts.
Our hearts and our affections and our desires and our spirit and our attitude is gonna be for God, for the King James Bible, for the Word of God, we're gonna have faith in God.
We're not gonna let our affection be given to some cheap substitute, to the whores of this world, to the pleasures of this world.
I'm not gonna be dying and on my gravestone have a cowboy star on it.
I'm not gonna have the star of Remfan on my grave.
You know what I want a King James Bible verse on my grave. How about steadfast be steadfast? How about that?
You know, we need to make sure that we're laying up treasure in heaven because you know what that's where our heart will be
We should not let them have our hearts. Don't let the giants of this world the Canaanites have our hearts
Don't let them have your affection. Don't let them have your attention
Don't let them have your energy. You know what the trolls want to do
They want to zap you of all your energy and of all your attention and of all your creativity
You know, don't let the haters and the disgruntled people get all your attention, you know instead of fighting losers
Just build something
And just let the losers continue being losers.
And continue saying like,
let's go listen to sermons we hate again.
Instead of saying like, why don't we go like,
knock on someone's door and give them the gospel?
Why don't you build something?
Why don't you baptize someone?
Why don't you actually preach a good sermon for once?
Oh, sorry.
I guess you just spend so much time hating people
instead of actually reading your Bible
to then think that David's a crummy dad.
I don't see that in my Bible, but you know what I believe what the Word of God says.
Maybe you're just too busy just studying a bunch of tourist traps in Israel
and making stupid movies about it instead of actually trying to reach people with the gospel.
And I'm going to take videos down off the internet reaching thousands of people
and I'm going to put strikes on it so that people don't get saved,
so that I can promote a movie that no one wants to watch that's stupid and wrong anyways.
Because I'm too busy hating people and now I'm blinded by God and now I'm taking advantage of by suckers and
Instead of actually doing something and building something. I'm just doing destructive work
You know what we shouldn't let them have our mind, you know, we should use our creativity to do something good and reach new people
Not our creativity to make a board game about people that we hate
What a weirdo
I mean, think about how much time, effort, and energy
has to go into that, that you could have done something
productive with your life.
And I'm telling you, your wife and kids
do not think it's cool.
My wife shared with me this list,
and it was the number one most embarrassing habit of men.
Number one was gaming.
It should have been making board games of people you hate.
It should have been above that.
I mean, what a loser activity.
What a troll.
You know, let us not give them our souls
and our youth and our strength.
You know, the Bible says we should fight
the good fight of faith.
Hey, say it like Nehemiah.
Hey, I'm doing a great work.
I can't come down.
I'd beat you at that board game,
but I'm too busy, okay?
You know it's just it's just silly that people just get so distracted and all the nonsense and the garbage and the hate and the weirdo
But it happens read the epistles just read Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1st Thessalonians
And you'll see Paul constantly saying like ignore the haters ignore all the disgruntled people you have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet
Have you not many fathers? I mean just constantly saying like it be wearable the bozos the dogs the
Concision
all the evil workers, the false apostles,
all these different people just constantly trying
to drag you away, why?
Because we're actually doing something.
Yeah, right, yeah.
Don't let the, well, I don't like fighting.
Okay, you just want to wander around in the wilderness then?
You want to be the evil generation
that accomplishes nothing?
Because you know what, I would rather fight.
and die fighting than to just be a lazy bum
out in the wilderness, just be a lazy jerk.
You know what, even if I don't get to enjoy the land,
maybe my kids can enjoy the land.
You know what, I don't want to be this generation
when we look back and we say, hey,
they had great opportunity to serve the Lord,
but they turned aside.
Hey, remember the heyday when they were running 20,000
and now they're running 1,500?
It's interesting that these group of people
raise amazing children that they go from 20,000 to 1,500.
How does that work?
How does that math even math?
I feel like your math's not mathin'.
And then they'll say like, oh, but see, there's 1,500.
Yeah, but you came from 20,000.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you were on the right path,
if you were on the right,
you were walking down the right direction,
wouldn't it go up?
Wouldn't it at least maintain?
I mean, to see a 90-some percent decline
tells me there's some issue.
You know, when you look at some of the greatest churches
even America today of independent fundamental Baptist,
most of them are in decline.
Most of the biggest churches of the old IFB
are in decline from what they used to be.
They're a shell of what they used to be.
You know what that tells you?
You're not going in the right direction.
If you were to buy a business, I know most people you know some people just don't understand this
But if you were to buy a business and you look at their chart and they say hey 20 years ago
We were making a million dollars a year in sales
Okay, but what do you made last year?
100,000
and we've seen this pattern of just going down.
You wouldn't say, hey, they're doing great,
great business model, model them.
It's like, but look, they have $100,000 coming in.
Yeah, well, that's different than if you say,
hey, we started two years ago,
we started worth first with 10,000, then 50,
now we're at 100.
That's a different story than going from a million
to half a million to 200,000 to 100,000.
You have to look, what's the direction
that you're headed in?
sometimes you have to see hey what's the direction that someone's headed what
is the direction of our country and I don't like it let's change it let's take
over let us take over let us possess the lint let us be the one that everybody
says hey they reached us they're getting us saved they're getting us baptized
they're coming into our nation hey they gave me the Baptist bias and let us not
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for giving us an opportunity to do great works for your name and for your honor and for your glory.
I pray that we'd have the faith to get into these battles because we know that you're ultimately going to fight them for us.
I pray that you would increase the faith of the men and the women and the children in this room.
That you would help us to reach more people and that we could turn many people to the Lord.
I pray that you would give us just great opportunity
in these next coming years.
I pray that this year with all of our soul winning
and missions trips and all the projects
and the work that we have that we could just reach
more and more people.
And that we would not be this evil generation
that turns away from the Lord or forsakes God,
but rather we would be a generation of revival
that reaches more people and sees more people saved
and that we would continue to grow
for your honor and for your glory.
And I pray that we'd have the right attitude that we would say,
you know what, we're going to fight,
and we're going to set up a great example
for the next generation to follow.
And I pray that you would help motivate the young people
and the next generation to also follow in those works too.
Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 43.
Song number 43.
We're marching to Zion
Song number 43
Sing out loudly together on that first
And us around the throne, and us around the throne.
We're marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion.
We're marching up for Tucson.
The children of the heavenly king may speak their joys abroad, may speak their joys abroad.